Word: oddness
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...eventually found that sharing details about what I was buying only made me want to spend more. With friends on New Year's Eve, I asked to be the one to purchase a bottle of champagne. In an odd way, I felt I would be ringing in the New Year with my Blippy compatriots. And that made me realize Blippy isn't primarily about spending habits. Like any other social-networking site, it's mostly about feeling as if you're surrounded by a particular group of people even when...
...Crimson seemed to lack its usual speed early in the game, which allowed the Tigers to get some odd-man rushes and man-up situations and put the pressure on junior goaltender Ryan Carroll early...
...making your own luck, which John doesn't believe in, initially. A bit involving an inexplicably flaming gate and a nudist colony led by Tim Blake Nelson should have been the tip off to an Inferno connection, but it feels trivial, just another slightly off encounter that's not odd enough to really register...
Colleen M. Berryessa '11 wants to start a crime club. The name probably sounded odd when you first saw her e-mail this week. A club...for crime? But it seemed perfectly logical to Berryessa, a government concentrator. She is really interested in crime (studying it, not committing it!), and she thought maybe others would...
...uproar of Seymour's wedding day. Then in 1959 came the epic-length "Seymour: An Introduction." In a story full of all kinds of narrative wanderings and digressions, Buddy thinks back on his saintly, much-loved older brother, years after his suicide, and tries to account for his odd radiance...